St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-15

MIS-. w w. o0ScN, OF Aiken, :. e.
under treatment for nervous disease at the
house Of DR.. S. Fleet Spier in New York
jumped from a third-st0rv window and died
of her injuries.
While Patrick Duane, aged fourteen years
and Dennis Norton, aged thirteen, We're berry
ing in the woods near Elizabeth, \. J., they
were shot by two hunters and badly
wounded. Duane is not expected to recover
Norton says the shooting was intentional
The spOrtsmcn fled
| A work train on the $500 road near Had
stone Mich, struck a COW and was derailed.
The conductor and brakeman We're killed
and several others injured
| Howard Lee, a newspaper boy in Wash
lngton, i'll whose welfar2 President Cleveland
took special interest and recently caused to
be appointed a messenger in the pension
office, was dangerously injured by being
struck on the head by descending elevator
at the pension building.
A paEic occurred in Harris Theatre in Gin
clnnatl. During the performance a steam
roller at work in the neghbOrhoOd blew its
whistle and some person in the gallery
shouted Fire" The crowd started down
STAIRS, but two policemen, who threw them
! selves between the door and the people, sue
ceeded IN quoting them. During the excite
! ment fifteen women tainted and were carried
! into the street
fire at Mitchell, Oak, destroyed Dutton
q Mitchel's barns and nineteen horses, in
Guiding Ben Lee, the running horse. The
loss is 800
The Lunar Oil Works, in BROOKLYN, have
been damaged by fire to the extent of $40, 600
The Excelsior stores adjoining suffered
loss of $4,000 The losses were covered by
insurance.
The United States revenue cutter Bear has
. arrived at San Francisco from Alaska On
August a she seized British sealing
schooner, with 1900 skins, and the American
schooner Allie I. Alger, with 900 skins. A
few days later the American schooner
Handy, with 100 skins, was seized All
| the vessels We're turned over to the United
states marshal at Ounalaska. The Bear re-
| ports that the whaling feet up to August
! had taken seyenty-four whales. James B.
, Vincent was among the passengers on the
Bear. He is the only survivor of the thirty
six men on the whaling bark Napoleon,
which was wrecked in the ice in the Arctic
| IN May, 1885. From that time until he was
! rescued he had been living with a small
! band Of Indians on the Siberian coast
The officers of the City Railway, in De
/ tToit made an investigation and came to the
| conclusion that the company was being de-
| trauded by combination of conductors and
! drivers. Twenty-six men, supposed to be in
! no hi ontiN IL al,
! perintendent was also discharged. as it was
| thought he should have made the discovery
The discharged men severely beat two of
! those engaged in their places.
The terms of the agreement between the
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads
are officially given as follows: The Northern
Pacific joins Union Pacific in the guarantee
OF the dividends and charges on the Oregon
Navigation securities, the Union Pacific pay
ing three per cent. and the Northern Pacific
three per cent. of the guaranteed dividend of
six per cent. on Oregon Navigation stock
| The dividing line will be the Snake river at
its mouth, where it enters into the Columbia.
The Columbia and Palouse railroad will be
operated by the Northern Pacific and the
line will be turned over to that company.
The crops in Manitoba this year, according
to statistical reports, exceed all estimates. In
many sections the yield of wheat has been
thirty-hve bushels to the acre, and the aver
age will be about thirty bushels. Twelve
thousand acres of fax have been harvested,
and give net yield of 10000 bushels. The
barley crop is about 2,OOO, 900 bushels the oat
crop 100000 bushels, and the potato crop
2,S50.0OO bushels.
The Bellevue Bank, at Bellevue O., has
failed, with liabilities of about 100000 1t
is said the depositors will lose nothing.
Michael Davitt said in New York that he
mad no opinions to express on the American
politics Of the day, and that he did not in
tend to meddle with them, nor had he come
here, as was supposed, to heal up wound
alleged to have been inflicted by his friend,
Editor O. Brien. He said he was in this
country on private business.
United States Senator Farwell of Illinois,
who is en- route to Europe, has been inter-
viewed in New York. He was asked what
he thought of Presidents Cevelands tour
to the West, and replied that he thought
well of it. He said the President would be
well received by all classes without distinc-
ton of party. He had made good admins
tration, and it was not his fault if no set
tied policy as to the finances had been
carried out, but the fault Of his party in
Congress. In regard to the nomination
for the presidency, he said THE Republi-
can party had been divided, and is con-
fronted with the fact that Mr.. Cleveland,
who has made good executive, will be the
candidate of the Democratic party The
contest will be settled in the State of New |
York, and this fact ought to make the Re-
publicans more prudent than they were in
1884 If controled all the delegates of the
other States l would go to the delegation
from New York and say: Select that man
for the presidency who can carry New York
the one whose success you are willing to
become responsible for There I would
leave it,
About fifty British subjects met in CHICAGO
and resolved to call meeting for the organ
ization of the "British-American Society of
Illinois" The object is to induce English
men having their homes in this country tn
become naturalized
AS an east-bound passenger train stopped
at Odessa, Tex, for water three masked men